Wash. Post Fact Checker Slams Media's Reluctance To Challenge “Trump’s Repeated Misstatements"

[hazlnut]

Wash. Post Fact Checker Slams Media For Their Reluctance To Challenge “Trump’s Repeated Misstatements”

We all know Trump is a lying sack of shit, so why does the media let him get away with calling other people liars and crooks?

Trump is the final stage of the GOP cancer that started with the Tea Party. It's the bigot monster finally coming out of the cave and exposing his ugly self.

Trump is the modern day George Wallace.

Washington Post reporter and fact checker Glenn Kessler slammed media for their reluctance to “challenge Trump when he makes a claim that already has been found to be false” and allowing the presumptive Republican nominee to make “Four-Pinocchio statements over and over again.”

Trump has repeatedly hyped falsehoods and conspiracy theories, including his claim that he opposed the Iraq War from the start. Though this is demonstrably false, Trump made this claim 16 times without being fact-checked by the media. Trump also edits other parts of his own record, often with no pushback from reporters. Trump’s preference for phone interviews instead of face-to-face interviews allows him to have “an upper hand” and gives him the power to “diminish the interview.”

In his May 7 article, Kessler writes that the media have “no excuse” for not challenging Trump on his claims. Kessler even suggested that “TV hosts should have a list of Trump’s repeated misstatements so that if he repeats them, as he often does, he can be challenged”:

Step it up media. End every Trump segment with a Fact Check. Tell the Trump heads that their man is full of shit.

 

[gipper]

I wonder why Kessler has never fact checked Mrs. Cankles or seldom fact checks Big Ears.

Just another inflammatory piece from the WaPo, a leftist rag. Designed to be provocative and fool Ds and leftists everywhere.

 

[Stephanie]

WOW, the WashingtonCompost is throwing it's weight around as if they are someone important. and here I thought they WERE supposed to UNBIASED. what a joke. too bad people still keeps that rag alive. But some people needs someone to do their thinking for them.

 

[The VOR]

But some people needs someone to do their thinking for them.

This coming from the tea tard who never had an original thought in her life. LOL.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yeah...like I'm going to listen to a WAPO "fact" checker.